The Most to Boast
Angel Stadium of Anaheim is one of 21 pro parks found in California, which makes the Golden State the most populated pro ballpark state in 2014.

Double Duty
McKechnie Field in Bradenton, FL is one of 10 places to be a spring training and minor league ballpark, as it has been the Grapefruit League park of the Pittsburgh Pirates since 1969 and the home of their Florida State League affiliate, the Bradenton Marauders, since 2010.

Top Years for New Ballparks
Louisville Slugger Field was part of the ballpark building boom in the year 2000, when 12 of the now used 257 ballparks opened. A dozen pro ballparks also opened in 1994 and 2002, making those years among the three in which the most of the current crop of ballparks opened. And to find the most recent year in which none of the current ballparks opened you have to go all the way back to 1986.

New Yet Independent
The modern era of independent league baseball began in 1993 and has ensured that numerous ballparks were given second-lives since, although the trend in the 21st century has been to build ballparks specifically for indy league team use. A case in point is QuikTrip Park, which opened in 2008 in Grand Prairie, TX. Pictured above, it is one of 24 ballparks to have been built since 2000 that are being used by independent league teams in 2014. Five others opened in 1999, which means that just over half (29 of 54) of the ballparks used by teams in the seven currently operating indy leagues are 15 years old or less.

States Sans Pro Parks
In 2014, three states -- Alaska, Hawaii and Wyoming -- fail to have a professionally-used field. From 2001-11, Wyoming did have a team based in Casper, where Mike Lansing Field (pictured above) hosted a Pioneer League franchise from the ballpark's opening in 2002 until the Casper Ghosts moved to Grand Junction, CO for the 2012 season.

Hawaii was home to a pair of independent league teams as recently as 2013 and last had affiliated ball in 1987, with the aptly named Hawaii Islanders, which was a Triple-A team that began play in 1961.

Alas, Alaska's remoteness has prevented it from ever being home to professional baseball, and thus the state is the only one to never have a pro ballpark.

2014 Professional Baseball Ballparks

For the 2014 season, professional baseball is being played in 257 ballparks in 47 states, 4 Canadian provinces and the District of Columbia. The ballpark breakdown is spread across the major leagues (30), affiliated minor leagues (159), and independent leagues (54), with spring training-only stadiums (14) accounting for the balance.

Only ballparks that are permanent homes of pro teams are included, so venues such as Birmingham's Rickwood Field, which hosts an annual minor league game, are not listed. Nor is the likes of Tucson's Kino Stadium, which was home to a four-game Pacific Coast League series in April due to a brief construction delay that pushed back the opening of El Paso's new ballpark.

In all, there are 23 pro leagues: 2 make up the majors, 14 are minor leagues affiliated with the major leagues, and there are 7 independent leagues. The common theme among the leagues is they are domestic-based and charge admission to games.

All information in the 2014 complete pro ballpark list is as accurate as possible. There will always be some discrepancies over some ballpark capacities and opening dates with what you might find in individual cases elsewhere, but team-posted data and personal research provide the basis for the numbers and years listed. The 257 ballparks are grouped on this page by state and the actual city in which a ballpark is located is what's listed for its city.

While the number of active independent league ballparks rises and falls most years, the number of ballparks used by major and minor league teams remains consistent at 189. When you factor in the 14 ballparks that are used for spring training only, that makes the number 203. So consider 203 the number of ballparks to see if you want to see them all, and of those, Joe O'Brien Field is the most small, as the Elizabethton, TN ballpark that opened in 1974 can handle crowds of no more than 1,500. You can get an idea of why in the picture above of the tiny place where the Elizabethton Twins play.